[cisco-voip] FYI: FN - 63255 - MCS-7815-I2 and MCS-7825-I2, BIOS error prevents a system from booting if rebooted after October 1, 2009

[Anthony Kouloglou]

Well good morning,
i have not see it coming and now i am facing the bug!
I run 5.1.3f on a 7825I2 server and got the problem after a reboot on 
friday!
So, i did what cisco describes, got into BIOS, changed the clock to a 
2005 day and the server rebooted correctly(?)
1.I can navigate to the CCM administration page
2. i can access the cli

but,
3.when i navigate to the OS administration, i enter username password 
and it does nothing!!
4. also, in the serviceability web page, there are 2 columns missing!! 
Start time and UP-time!!

What can i do now?
Shall i proceed to the 5.1.3g upgrade through the CLI or shall i install 
my cucm from scratch?

Thanks and kind regards,
Anthony

Erick Bergquist wrote:
> FYI,
>
> Update on this. Working with TAC on this and the MCS-7815-I2 server is
> not effected by this issue, and Cisco is in process of updating the
> field notice with corrections and more information about the fixes for
> the various applications.
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Erick Bergquist <erickbee at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know what version of CER 7.x has the IBM 1.45 BIOS to fix
>> this issue?
>>
>> I ran the newest FWUCD 2.3(1) on a effected IBM Server and it updated
>> the BIOS from 1.4(3) to version 1.4(5) but when CER booted up it had
>> forced the BIOS to downgrade back to 1.4(3) and rebooted automatically
>> like part of the documentation states for this issue.
>>
>> I have a TAC Case open. It would be nice if the readme the Field
>> Notice links to doesn't have the two conflicting sections and also
>> have something in the field notice so that if you're on a Linux
>> product that you don't need the firmware CD but you need to upgrade
>> your CER/CUCM/etc to whatever version of CER/CUCM/etc has the new BIOS
>> with fix for this problem.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Erick Bergquist <erickbee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Has anyone applied this to a IBM server yet running Linux versions of software?
>>>
>>> I have a CER 7.x server I'm needing to apply this to, and have the CD
>>> but the docs are not clear in some spots and just wanted some
>>> clarification.
>>>
>>> Under Section 3, the scope section...
>>>
>>> 3.5.5   CRITICAL NOTE - This update may NOT be applied to any Linux
>>> based products.
>>>                        If Linux users attempt the upgrade the BIOS, the BIOS will be
>>> downgraded after        a subsequent reboot.  Linux users should reference
>>> the defect CSCta43460 in bug
>>>                        toolkit to find the appropriate version to upgrade to that contains the fix.
>>>
>>>
>>> But under Section 2.0 for Resolved Caveats it has the following, which
>>> indicates the above issue is fixed?
>>>
>>> Note: If Linux users attempt to use the FWUCD to upgrade the BIOS, the
>>> BIOS will be downgraded after a subsequent reboot.  Linux users should
>>> reference CSCta43460 in bug toolkit to find the appropriate version to
>>> upgrade to.
>>>
>>> Erick
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> <snip>
>>>> Field Notices-Voice and Unified Communications-09/05/2009 09:25
>>>> GMT-09/06/2009 07:30 GMT
>>>>
>>>> Title: Field Notice: FN - 63255 - MCS-7815-I2 and MCS-7825-I2, BIOS error
>>>> prevents a system from booting if rebooted after October 1, 2009  [Cisco
>>>> 7800 Series Media Convergence Servers]
>>>> Url: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ts/fn/632/fn63255.html
>>>> Description: A defect in the HostRAID BIOS 2106 (included with System BIOS
>>>> version 1.42 and 1.43) will prevent a server from booting successfully if
>>>> the server is rebooted after October 1, 2009. This is caused by a defect in
>>>> the IBM BIOS and is documented in IBM RETAIN Tip: H182636
>>>> Date: 2009-09-04 06:55:21.0
>>>> </snip>
>>>>
>>>> Anyone running IBM servers make certain you are updated before Oct 1.
>>>>
>>>> /Wes
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